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B. O. MASON HAT Filed April 1, 1925 I N V EN TOR. Beatse Q/a'en Mai'on,

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Patented Dec. 13, 1927.

U NIT-ED 1,652,723 PATENT OFF-ICE- BESSE OLDEN.MASON, OF EAST ORANGE, NEW JERS EY.v .ASSIGINOB TO JAMES MGGBBERY & COMPANY, OF NEW YORK,.N. Y..

A CORPORATION 01 NEW YORK.

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Application filed April-1,1925. Serial No. 19,907.

vogue :which fits downwellover the top of the head. Much difficulty is experienced in getting hats of this style to fit and particularly in view of the different ways of wearing the hair. My invention is intended to obviate this difliculty and produce a simple hat which will cost no more than the ordinary and b which the size can be quickly adjusted to t any head. The difficulty in accomplishing this result arises from the fact that a hat must be ornamental in order to be popular and any adjustment mustbe such as will not detract from the beauty of the hat and in producing my invention I have had this in mind and one object is to produce an attachment or means of adjustment which will actually beautify the hat and make it more attractive than similar hats that do not have the adjustment.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, in which similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a hat showing my improvements.

Figure 2 is a similar view but from the opposite side.

Figure 3 is a perspective view, the hat brim turned partly down and partly up to show the adjustable feature.

Figure 4 is a perspective view of a slightly modified type of hat.

Figure 5 is a detailed section, illustrating the means of adjustment.

By way of example the drawings represent a hat of general conventional type, that is the soft or felt hat which fits the head rather closely and this is provided with a brim which may be turned down or up and which has overlapping parts 11 and 12 5 split or separated diagonally as shown at 12 and these overlapping parts are preferably placed at the front of the hat. The edges of these parts are gradually narrowed and merge at the back of the hat to a hardly perceptible brim 13. Obviously, any particular form and style of the brim can be adopted without affecting the invention. By having the brim of the general shape indi- H cated. and separated along the line 13 the handsome outlines of the hat can be preserved'and when the brim is turned up and the parts-overlapped as in Figures 1 and 2, the said parts serve to ornament the hat andrelievc its rather severe outlines.

Thesa overlapping parts-11 and12-can obviously be connected by any adjustable means, but from the character'of the invention these means shouldbe ornamental, therefore I prefer to use "ribbons as illustrated, and to this end the ribbons 14 can be ornamented where they join the brim flaps 11 and 12 as shown at 15 andwhere the ribbons connect it may be by means of a buckle 16 of some ornamental character which will be at the back of the hat. As shown, this buckle 16 has a keeper 17 on the back which can be sewn or otherwise fastened to the hat crown, and the buckle has a flexible finger 18 which may be punched through the overlapping parts of the ribbon 14 to prevent them from separating and to fix the head 1 size. It will be, of course, evident that the ribbon ends can be connected by any suitable buckle or other fastening device or may be tied with a bow or knot, without affecting the invention. It will also be understood that the ribbons or equivalent parts may be fas toned together at other points than the back of the hat. Instead of having the flaps 11 and 12 overlap as shown, one may be s'lotted transversely as shown at 12 in dotted lines so that the other flap may extend through it. Likewise it should be apparent that the ribbons or fastening may be guided in any desired way. For instance, in Figure 4 I have shown a slightly different style hat in which the top is what is sometimes termed the mellon top, and the ribbons 14 are ex tended through slits 19 in the side of the crown which thus act as keepers. The fastening members or ribbons 14 extend in opposite direct-ions around the crown of the hat. and each exerts on its respective brim port-ion 11 and 12 a lateral, circumferential pull. which draws said brim portion into close and snug engagement with the crown of the hat. producing a neat and trim effect.

From the foregoing description it will be that the but can be made in many styles and of different materials without departing from the disclosed invention.

1 claim:

1. A hat comprising a complete Well defined crown, a marginal brim at the lower edge of the crown, said brim being of varying height, and having a diagonal split therein forming overlapping reduced end por tions, and fastening bands secured to the end portions of the brim and arranged to fasten around the lower part of the crown thereby binding the brim against the crown.

2. A hat comprising a well-defined complete crown merging into a marginal brim,

the brim being split so that the ends thereof over lap; and fastening members attached to and forming extensions of the overlapping ends of the brim, said fastening members extending in opposite directions from the split and each exerting a lateral circumferential pull onthe brim portion to which it is attached, the lateral circumferential pull exerted by said fastening members on the; brim serving to hold said brim snugly against the crown.

, 'In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification this27th day of March, 1925. V

BEssE. OLDEN MASON. 

